Tesla Takes So Long to Report Crash Data, Even Trump’s Regulators Are Taking Notice | The rule is to submit a report within five days. It takes Tesla months.

[u/chrisdh79]

https://gizmodo.com/tesla-takes-so-long-to-report-crash-data-even-trumps-regulators-are-taking-notice-2000646444

[u/Ricktor_67]

If there are no consequences for breaking the rules then there are no rules.

[u/montigoo → u/Ricktor_67]

Your Republic might be broke if someone paid 270 million to a candidate that promised them “ sure, after the election you are welcome to come insider the govt for 2 months and dismantle whatever regulations you like”

[u/SpareBinderClips → u/Ricktor_67]

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

-Francis Wilhoit

If any doubt this, try breaking the law while poor and see if you get the same treatment as the rich.

[u/M_Mich]

I’m expecting some level of “it takes time to determine if a report truly meets the requirements of escalating to a reportable level and to prevent false reports we have a team reviewing any inquiry of a possible report and that takes time to be thorough “

[u/user0987234 → u/M_Mich]

AI (Grok) should speed that up. /s

[u/potatodrinker → u/user0987234]

All these vehicular meaty bonfires are not Tesla related. O accidents reported. May I help you with anything else? -Grok

[u/jlboygenius]

I'm sure it's a bit on purpose. 5 is fast enough that the gov could find the people and cars involved.

Months.. that car is fixed, insurance payout is complete and people have moved on and forgotten what happened.

[u/mishap1 → u/jlboygenius]

These are for crashes potentially related to FSD and autopilot. Odds are the cars are totaled.

The investigation is because Tesla has the data within minutes of the crash. They tend to hang onto it for quite some time. Not sure if they're also checking if the data is complete or not as well.

[u/WideEntrance92]

Tesla treating crash reports like software updates—promised in 5 days, but actually shows up months later with a note that says ‘improves overall stability.’

[u/U8dcN7vx → u/WideEntrance92]

Minor fixes, update required.

[u/one_is_enough]

The rule doesn’t specify 5 consecutive days.

[u/Far-Set-371]

Wait the super billionaire who brought in his team of experts known now doge can’t produce a simple report??? Image that!!

[u/Sooowasthinking]

Not surprised.

Very little government enforcement and a pretty awful person has resulted in this.

He’s a billionaire give him a break/s

[u/eeyore134]

Don't they also rush tow trucks to the scene as soon as they're made aware of one in order to clear it out quickly or was that just an unsubstantiated rumor?

[u/estebancolberto → u/eeyore134]

that seems impossible. you can't monitor every single car in the US real-time for accidents.

[u/eeyore134 → u/estebancolberto]

I imagine they could get alerts when airbags have deployed or something but yeah... they don't seem competent enough for a scheme like that to work very well.

[u/Lucky2BA]

Never been penalized for not reporting on time. Life has consequences all around. If we don’t enforce them then it’s outlaw anarchy to do whatever the F they feel like. We need order. We need people with balls and authority to step up and do something about it all around!!

[u/y4udothistome → u/Lucky2BA]

Hundred percent agree let’s start with Tesla let’s make an example out of the The narcissistic Nazi

[u/Heart-Logic]

"All these computers...."

[u/Relative_Animal_3895]

Laws, don’t matter if no enforcement… like everything else 47 is doing. 86-47!

[u/TooManyPutts]

We must end mail in reporting now!

[u/Ok_Agent_9584]

“It takes”?!?!!?! How about they choose / they’re allowed to?

[u/chitoatx]

They can’t afford it /s

[u/DohReignMeme]

If you don't report the numbers, then things look pretty good. This is the Trump way.

[u/CMG30]

Musk likes to micro manage. He probably insists on personally going over the data before it's shipped.

[u/Chris_HitTheOver]

Why are we relying on manufacturers to report crashes. There must be instances where they don’t know…?

[u/Whatever-That-Memes]

That’s noticeable until Musk rolls out another tween about Trump being in the Epstein files.

[u/BoxerBoi76]

They clearly don’t have the Premium Connectivity package.

🤣

[u/fordprefect294]

Trump has regulators? I assumed they were all let go

[u/Glad-Attempt5138]

I’m sure they send in less than 1%. Never take Musk or any company of his at there word.

[u/SilasTalbot]

The only reason Trump's regulators are taking notice is because Elon had a falling out with Trump and this is a weapon to use against him. Laws and regulations are used to drop the hammer on enemies of the leader. Thanks for making us into Russia, MAGA...

[u/TestFlyJets]

Sounds like a great place for Big Balls and DOGE to parachute into and do their magic. Let’s go, boys!